A VERY RARE AND FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE TABLET PENDANT
A VERY RARE AND FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE TABLET PENDANT
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SAM AND MYRNA MYERS
A VERY RARE AND FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE TABLET PENDANT

MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC

细节
5 1⁄8 in. (13 cm.) high
来源
Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Paris, by 1995.
出版
J. Desroches, Two Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Art, Italy, 2016, p. 56, no. 112.
展览
From the Lands of Asia, Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex, Montreal, 16 November 2016-19 March 2017; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 4 March-19 August 2018.

荣誉呈献

Rufus Chen (陳嘉安)
Rufus Chen (陳嘉安)

拍品专文

This superb and rare implement belongs to a group of Western Zhou flat jade carvings of generally rectangular shape and carved with identical decoration on either broad side which are variously described as tablets, scepters or handles. The present example is rare to feature a humanoid figure so prominently in the design. A similarly carved Western Zhou jade tablet carved with a bird resting atop the head of a humanoid figure with similar facial features to that on the current tablet, that in turn surmounts animal masks that face up and down, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 1985.214.96. (Fig. 1) Other flat jade implements of this type carved with similar bird and mask motifs, but lacking humanoid figures, include one in the British Museum described as a scepter (acc. no. 1937,0416.151) and one from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard Art Musuems (1943.50.134).

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